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How accurate can the location triangulated between iBeacons be? #iBeaconWebinar

I am curious how accurate the location of a stationary client can be derived when triangulation is performed inside a set of iBeacons, assuming an optimally calibrated environment. Is there any information available about this?

The accuracy depends on how close you're getting to the beacons. In another thread, super-star champ David Helms pointed out that the accuracy is range-dependent and gets better the closer you are. If you're willing to deploy lots of iBeacons, you'll get better results -- but you still need to map the iBeacons into a coordinate system and physical space accurately enough to make sense of the proximity vectors you get. Triangulating on to a map is much more advanced than triggering on the proximity context.

We've done some characterization of RSI to range -- close in it tracks pretty well, as you get further away multipath and other effects can introduce a lot of errors. The geometry of the space your in has a big effect.